I have to say it — I don’t think guys who ride scooters are sexy at all. Not that they’re riding in order to be sexy, but it goes so solidly in the wrong direction that I don’t even know what to say. I know they do it all over Europe, and it’s starting to [...]

My mother always said that my mouth would get me in trouble. This became quite apparent in the public realm when, as a waitress at the age of 23, I told my manager at the Ruby Tuesday’s “F*** you!” for deciding arbitrarily to withdraw my vacation the day before I was supposed to leave (he [...]

The other day, Facebook informed me that I had seven friends who “liked” Sarah Palin. Naturally, I first checked to see who they were (no surprises there) and then I posted this: Marlene Merritt is slightly alarmed to see FB say that seven of my friends “like” Sarah Palin. Does this mean they “like” her [...]

I was going to post a video from Ren and Stimpy (those of you who watched that in the’90′s know who you are) and their Happy Happy Joy Joy song, but I got distracted by all the other shows I hadn’t seen in nearly 20 years, so now I’m going to skip it. Probably no [...]

Ten years ago, my dad died a bit suddenly. By suddenly, I mean that the day before, he was at the cardiologist’s, and they gave him a monitor to wear for 24 hours, because he had some history of heart stuff, and he died before he could return the monitor. So it was a bit [...]

I finished reading this book for the second time while I was on my last trip, and when I say I read it a second time, I mean it was so fascinating that when it was done, I turned right around and read it again. It’s City Of Thieves, by David Benioff and it’s about [...]

(Part 1 is here) Imagine a world… a world in which you get to finish a thought. Several thoughts. A world in which your day doesn’t start out with a bombardment of finding out who wants what via email, doesn’t have multiple people during the day asking you, “Can I ask you a question?”, and [...]

I have this list of 50 Things I want to do in my lifetime (that’s a whole other post) and things on it include everything to running a marathon (did it), jumping out of an airplane (did it), to taking an Ikebana class while I was in Japan (did that, too). I want to take [...]

I’ve always wanted to do this, and the opportunity never arose until now. If you don’t know what Rolfing is, it’s basically like undoing all the muscular adhesions in your body that start to build up over time. And they cause things that you probably think aren’t reversible, like your bum shoulder, or your stiff [...]